Wednesday, January 28, 2009

What can I say?

Let's Tarantino this shit

Oxford is a pile of shit.

Now we back track!



God damn...where to begin where to begin. Just for the sake of order, I'm going to start with our Senior Portfolios. I don't even know what to say at this point, just "really? that's why?" We have to have them done early because of "the stress of post AP tests"? Haha. More like they want us to do it early while we're still conscious while we attend Oxford. But no, admins, don't make them due when we're not doing something irrelevant, let's make them due DURING YOUR GOD DAMN FINALS WEEK. Yeah we "should have" been working on them the whole time or something, but fucking puh-lease, does ANYONE actually expect us to work on them as a work in progress over a long period of time. Don't even try to play that off. I'm not sure I can identify a single person (that I know) that didn't wait until last week to start working on these.

And then beyond that, Seniors regularly "Embarass" Oxford staff and others by performing below their standards. L O GOD DAMN L. Does any honestly care about these projects, really? Can you look me in the eyes and tell me you feel for this project (And don't play Devil's Advocate or I'm not even going to talk to you, no really fuck off). WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS. Let's reflect, on shitty reflections we're forced to do for points, half of them are even modified by teachers to be slightly comical to make us do them. I remember....7th grade I think it was, when these were optional, and no one did them, you know what got people to fucking do them? The fact that if they didn't they would lose out on a grade in some class. I remember that's why my PE grade died in 9th grade because I didn't give a FUCK.

So let's take a look at this from far away. We have a project we're forced to do or some random grade in some random class is dropped. We have to give a speech on some topics we don't really want to do. We have to do it almost 5 months earlier than any other seniors in Oxford's history. And we have to do it "well", and not make Oxford look bad. This is definitely a wonderful recipe, I'm glad we have the staff that we do!

And you know what let's talk about our staff, specifically Hoshi. WHAT THE FUCK? Today Zack got ripped off from the vending machine a dollar or so (whatever his thing cost) and he went and told Gibb about it, and she said no, while Hoshi overheard and said he could get his dollar back.(something to that extend) Ok, cool he got his dollar back, but WHAT THE HELL. The vending machines have been "at your own risk" for years, and everytime I've ever asked anyone for my money back, I'm more or less just laughed off. So we have a biased staff that just feels like refunding some and not refunding others, that's fucking wonderful. Does that mean I can just go up to Hoshi and be like "Yeah over the last 6 years that machine has ate $10 of mine, can I just have it back" No, of course I can't. He'll just be like no get out of here.

Also let's take a glance and something we call a dress code. I know people who have gotten saturday school's for wearing a jacket that's slightly out of dress code, pants slightly too short, the wrong shade of fucking khaki making it more green than khaki (or something to that color), and people who have had numerous things they own just be confiscated, all with detention or Saturday schools. But we have a student who hasn't worn a polo in over 2 years, and I know a few others who regularly don't wear proper "Oxford" attire. So now we enforce a policy of "if you can get away with it, go ahead!" then? Wonderful too!

And finally, Hodges. You are absolutely out of your god damn mind. I ran it over in my head over and over, and I'm still lost in everything. You know damn well we need 25-35 minutes to write an essay, yet you have the audacity to create a test in which if done correctly, you barely have 15 minutes left. And how do you have the same audacity to look at your class, and say, with just under 10 minutes left "Make sure you write your essay" you've lost your fucking mind. There's no way in hell you will ever be able to prove that test was "fair" (Also if you're going to bitch that life isn't fair, again get out, I'm not here to argue trivial shit)

Thanks a lot Oxford, for being "2nd in the nation" you sure as fuck prove it with your wonderful administration, rules, and teachers. Thanks a lot for wasting my time and my grades

edit: Please comment

2 comments:

Omar said...

Well, you're halfway through. Just look back, say, "Fuck it," then move on. We can't do much more than that now. We're pretty much at their mercy.

philophiliac said...

Wow. I have to admit, quite a lot of stupid shit happens to you. I'm slightly ashamed to say these stories you tell are somewhat amusing .. but damn. When I think about it .. your life is effed. Or at least you do an excellent job of making it sound that way.

If you think again, though, you'll realize that you're not the only one going through a lot of this B.S. I mean, Hodges, the vending machines, portfolio, and unbalanced dress codes ... Sure, that's all madness, but everyone has to deal with it. So just try not to let it all get to your head so much. If someone does something unfair or bitchy, just shrug it off. (Or stand up for yourself .. but oftentimes it isn't worth the trouble.) All I'm saying is, you sound pretty angry .. more so than you should be. Maybe you aren't. But it sounds like it .. and your language doesn't help your tone =\